Jacob Howell Named ESPN The Magazine Third-Team Academic All-American – Ohio State Buckeyes
6/2/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
June 2, 2007
Senior Jacob Howell was selected a third-team Academic All-American on the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Baseball Team, as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Howell, selected as a designated hitter, is a communication major with 3.53 grade-point average. The Ashland, Ohio (Ashland) native is a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District IV honoree, a four-time Academic All-Big Ten pick and a five-time OSU Scholar-Athlete.
The Academic All-America program annually honors over 1600 student-athletes who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA (the College Sports Information Directors of America), a 2,000-member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.
To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.
The Buckeyes are currently in the NCAA College Station Regional at Olsen Field in College Station, Texas and will face No. 4 seed Le Moyne Saturday at 2 p.m. ET. Ohio State lost, 5-4, to Louisiana-Lafayette Friday in the first game of the College Station Regional. The Buckeyes, the No. 3 seed, are making their 18th NCAA tournament appearance overall and the 12th since 1991.
If Ohio State wins Saturday, it will play the loser of the winner’s bracket game at 2 p.m. Sunday with the winner advancing to play the undefeated team in the championship Sunday at 8 p.m. If the undefeated team loses, the second championship game will be played Monday at 7:30 p.m. The winner of the regional advances to a best-of-three super regional and will play the winner of the Rice Regional that includes Rice, Prairie View, Baylor and Texas Christian.
